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Billionaires

Never Mind the Nannies, Drivers are the New Dads

Manhattan's wealthiest families rely on drivers—often ex-cops and ex-Mossad—to chaperone, track and discipline their teenagers. Inside the K12 chauffeur economy.
By Richard Kirshenbaum
Six images of five men and one women, placed next to eachother

Six of the World’s Richest People Who Are Not Leaving Billions to Their Children

Some of the world's wealthiest individuals have no plans to pass on their wealth to the next generation.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
A large yellow sign reading “National Gallery of Art” stands in front of the museum’s neoclassical West Building in Washington, D.C., beneath an overcast sky.

The Largest Cash Gifts to U.S. Art Institutions So Far in 2026

From Mitchell Rales’ $116 million gift to D.C.'s National Gallery to major commitments from Silicon Valley, foundations and dedicated cultural patrons, these donations are shaping access to art and institutional futures.
By Elisa Carollo
Aerial view of Villa Carmignac on Porquerolles, surrounded by olive trees, vineyards and dense Mediterranean forest, with the turquoise sea and distant coastline beyond.

How a Protected Mediterranean Island Became One of France’s Most Compelling Art Destinations

By Elisa Carollo
A white gallery displays a large black-and-white mixed-media work, a figurative painting and two bright blue sculptures of men looking at their phones.

In Athens, Works from George Economou’s Art Collection Take Stock of the 21st Century

By Elisa Carollo

When Warren Buffett Is Your Daddy

By Bess Levin
A photograph of a man and woman standing in front of a red wall, flanked by two classical-style portraits, with the man wearing a dark suit and the woman wearing a patterned orange shirt and white glasses.

Collector Carl Thoma Has No Holy Grails and No Regrets

By Yana Talke
Apple CEO Tim Cook at Sun Valley.

What We Know About the Ultra-Private Sun Valley Conference Host

By Sissi Cao
A collage of seven media moguls

The Tech Titans and Billionaire Heirs Who Own America’s Newsrooms

By Saleah Blancaflor
Van Life - Road Trips During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Can Art Save Main Street? Some Small Towns Are Staking Their Futures On It

By Daniel Grant
A reclining nude figure with pale skin lies curled against a richly patterned, dark decorative background filled with gold tones and organic motifs, suggesting a sensual, dreamlike scene.

What to Watch in Sotheby’s Masterpieces From the Lewis Collection Sale

By Christa Terry
Man in suit and woman in black and white dress pose atop green stairs

The Met Gala Is Entering Its Billionaire Era With Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

72 Hours of Art in Salt Lake City: Museum Hopping, Spiral Jetty and Sculpture on the Slopes

By Christa Terry
The Association For Frontotemporal Degeneration 10th Annual Hope Rising Gala

Flowers, Fuchsia and Emma Heming Willis’s New Philanthropic Fund: Inside AFTD’s 2026 Hope Rising Benefit

By Olivia Empson
Headshot of man with beard wearing dark blue shirt

The Executive Who Sells Cryonics to the Ultra-Wealthy Chasing Immortality

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

The First Jim Irsay Collection Sale Sets 23 World Auction Records

By Christa Terry

Old Master Grandeur and Modern Patronage Converge at the 2026 Norton Museum of Art Gala

By Christa Terry
A silhouetted figure stands facing a large, colorful painting in a dark room, representing the intimate and opaque relationship between the viewer and the artwork in the elite art market.

Filmmakers Andreas Dalsgaard and Christoph Jörg Unpack the Art World’s Biggest Scandal

By Brittany Rosemary Jones
A man sits on a gray bench in a museum gallery, with framed Dutch Golden Age paintings displayed on pale blue walls behind him.

Meet the Collector: Thomas S. Kaplan On Auctioning His First Rembrandt

By Elisa Carollo
A cavalry soldier on horseback charges forward with a raised pistol, leading a group of mounted troops galloping across an arid plain under a bright blue sky, with his horse rearing and mouth open mid-motion.

Billionaire Bill Koch’s Western Art Collection Gallops Past Estimates at Christie’s

By Christa Terry
Man in suit stands on stage

Bill Gates Calls US Aid Cuts a ‘Paradox’ Amid Historic Global Health Progress

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Close-up of a weathered bronze statue with visible cracks, peeling paint, and a pink bandage on its cheek, set against a cloudy sky.

The New Tech Nationalists: Silicon Valley’s 2025 Power Play

By Lindsey Brock Morales
Lucy Guo attends as Passes presents Lucypalooza 2024 during LA Tech Week on October 16, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.

Meet Lucy Guo, the New Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire Dethroning Taylor Swift

By Shreyas Sinha
A stylized collage featuring Bill Gates at the center, radiating golden rays amid floating hundred-dollar bills. Around him stand other billionaire philanthropists—MacKenzie Scott, Melinda French Gates, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Alexandr Wang, Evan Spiegel—rendered in desaturated or grayscale tones. The image captures the tension between glowing public generosity and the more opaque structures of modern wealth.

The Big Givers Club

By Vasilisa Kirilochkina
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